Combined shoe and arch support



E.S,AJENDREA COMBINE SHOE AND ARCH -SUPPORT Filed Oct. s, 1921 i 50dotted lines, and

Patented Dee. 1S, 1923..

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:[NDIANA, A CORPORATION 0F INDANA.

COMBINED SHOE .AND ARCH SUPPORT.

Application ler October 3,1921. Serial No. 505,157.

T 0 all whom t may cof/cern .f Be it known that I, EDWARD S.\ANDERsoNENDREA, a citizen of the United States7 re;L

siding at Chicago, in the county of Cook and 5 State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful- Im rovements in Combined Shoes and Archupports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to the con- 11) struction of shoes with aspecial arch support therein and relates particularly to the vmanner offastening the arch sup-pbrt in the shoe so that it is a permanent partof the latter. i

It frequently occurs that peculiarities in a persons foot render itdesirable to .provide a special support in the shoe tofit a high arch orto overcome a tendencyof the foot to lean toward one Side or the. otherof ed` the shoe, and it has been customary iny such cases, to merelyplace the necessary arch support in the finished shoel and fasten samein place by means of cement or small nails. The principal objects of myinvention are 25 to construct the shoe with the arch support therein sothat the shoe is fashioned to properly tit around the arch support; toconstruct the arch support as a permanent part of the shoe; to fastenthe arch support in the so shoe in an improved manner so that theiexibility of the arch support is not impaired and in general, to/provide an improved shoe construction which is better adapted toaccommodate or compensate for peculiarities 35 of the feet than havebeen heretofore provided.

0n the drawings, Fig. 1 is a side view of a shoe last having' an in-soleand arch support applied 4 0 thereon in accordance With my inventionpreparatory to the making of the shoe; Fig. 2, a bottom view of theconstruction shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3, a top view of the arch support with .if parts .broken away ofthe in-sole to whichit is attached;

Fig. 4, a side view of' a shoe constructed in accordance with myinvention and showmg the in-sole and arch support therein in Fig. 5,- asectionalview on the line 5--5 of Fig. 4.

Referring to the drawings the referenbe numeral indicates as a whole anarch supa port, which 1s similarto that shown and and showing aAportion.`

ldescribed in U. S. Letters Patent No.

988,942 of Apr. 11th, 1911, to Krech et al. and consists of superposedlayers of flexible material preferably leather of increasingly smallersize which are secured together by stitching along the line 2, So thateach layer while independently 4flexible is held in the the otherlayers. ln my present invention this arch support 1 issecured to thein-sole 3 of the shoe, by a line of stitching 5 passing through thelower layer 4 of the arch support and the in-sole and located preferablyjust under the edge of the second layer 6 of the arch support, as shownin Figs. 3 and 5. To attach the arch support to the shoe in this manner,a last 7 is gouged out or cutaway to afford a recess in which the archsupport 1 fits when the in-sole 3 with arch support attached is placedin the prop-- er position on, the last and this in-sole with the archsupport sewed thereto along the line 5, is then tacked onto the last bymeans of a number of small nails 8. The shoe upper is then fitted overthe last 7 in the usual manner and the edges thereof turned over thein-sole 3 and secured thereto, after which the tacks or small nails 8are removed so that the last is free to be removed from the shoe whenthe latter is completed. The shoe sole is then applied over the in-sole3 and the shoe completed in the usual manner, after which the last 7 isremoved leaving the shoe with the in-sole 3 formed as a part thereoandthe arch support 1 firmly attached to the in-sole.

By constructing the shoe in this manner' the parts of the shoe arecaused to fit snugly around the arch support and the latter is securelyfastened in the proper position so that there is no danger ofdisplacement of the arch. support and the iiexibility of the latter isin nowise impaired by the connection thereof to the shoe.

lit is to be understood that the port shown, and described is merelyexemplary and that the invention is not con-lined to the particular formshown but the arch support may be in any form that the peculiarity of,the foot requires and the last 7 in each case is formed to correspondwith the particular arch support.

While" l have shown and described my invention in apreferred form, lL'am aware that various changes and modicationsmay arch sup n -requiredrelative position with reference to f ill@ be made Without departingfrom the principles of my invention, the scope of which should bedetermined by reference to the and loose from and projecting beyond theother side of the in-sole, then applying the shoe upper and the sole andfinally removing the last from the completed shoe.

2. The improvement in the art of manufacturing a shoe to fit the arch ofthe foot which consists in first forming a shoe last with a recess toaccommodate the desired arch support and attaching the arch support toand at a distance from the lateral edges of the in-sole of the shoefwhich is to beconstructed on the last, then applying the combinedin-sole and arch support to the Shoe last so that the arch support fitsin the recess provided therefor in the last, then temporarily attachingvthe in-sole to the last, `then applying the shoe upper onto the last andsecuring same to the in-sole,-then releasing the in-sole from the lastand -stitching the`shoe sole to thefin-sole along the' edges of thelatter so that the arch support loosely overlies'said stitching and thenremoving the' last from the completed shoe.

3. In a shoe the combination With the insole of an arch supportingmember seWed to the in-sole along one edge thereof and loose from andprojecting beyond the other edge of the in-sole, said member comprisinga plurality of layers of flexible material secured together at adistance from the point of attachment of said member to the in-sole.

EDWARD S. ANDERSON ENDREA.

